Words similar to nickname

Example sentences for: nickname

How can you use “nickname” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For this patriotic venture against the Moors of North Africa, the people of Porto surrendered the finest cuts of meat in their stores to the navy and lived on tripe instead, thus earning their honorable nickname of tripeiros (literally “tripe eaters,” as people from Porto are commonly known).
A patronymic can be based on a full name ( William-s ) or a nickname ( Will-s ).
He was remembered as one of football's funniest and most generous players, and his nickname, Sweetness, "was a tribute to his personality more than his running style" ( ESPN ). Chicago Bears Assistant Coach Fred O'Connor, who believed Payton was destined to be a legend from the outset, said, "God must have taken a chisel and said, 'I'm going to make me a halfback.
Like an inoculation, a nickname is a minor injury that wards off more serious harm.
( Frosh , by the way, seems to have come from the German for "frog"--it was a 19 th -century nickname for members of an entering class of German university students.)